Chromatius

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"Saint Chromatius" is also the name of the father of Saint Tiburtius.
Saint

Chromatius
Saint Sebastianus and Saint Chromatius
Born4th Century
Aquileia
Died406/407
Venerated inCatholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast2 December

Chromatius (died c. 406/407 AD) was a

bishop of Aquileia
.

He was probably born at Aquileia, and grew up there.[1] His father died when Chromatius was an infant. He was raised by his mother and his large group of older siblings.

Career

He was ordained a priest of that church in 381 and participated in the small Synod of Aquileia organized by Ambrose of Milan. After the death of Valerianus in 388, Chromatius became bishop of Aquileia. He was one of the most celebrated prelates of his time and was in active correspondence with contemporaries Ambrose, Jerome, and Tyrannius Rufinus.[1] He baptized Rufinus and became something of a mentor to him.[2]

As a scholarly

Paralipomenon, Tobit, the books of Solomon, commentaries on the Prophecy of Habakkuk).[1] Chromatius helped finance Jerome's work.[2]

In the bitter quarrel between Jerome and Rufinus concerning

Origen of Alexandria
, attempted to make peace between the disputants. He maintained ecclesiastical communion with Rufinus and induced him not to answer the last attack of St. Jerome, but to devote himself to new literary works, especially to the translation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius.[2]

Chromatius opposed

Archbishop of Constantinople, when he was unjustly oppressed, and wrote in his favour to Honorius, the Western emperor, who sent this letter to his brother, Arcadius
. This intervention, however, proved to be of no avail.

Chromatius was also active as an

Eight Beatitudes (counted as an eighteenth treatise). In 1969 researcher Henri Lemarié discovered and published thirty-eight sermons.[3]

His feast is celebrated on 2 December.

Editions and Translations

References

  1. ^ a b c Kirsch, Johann Peter. "St. Chromatius." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 23 September 2021Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b c "St. Chromatius ", FaithND
  3. ^ Chromace d'Aquilée, Sermons I-II, Paris 1969, 1971 (Sources Chrétiennes 154, 164)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Chromatius". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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